Image via WikipediaThe BBC‘s iPlayer has proved a huge success in Britain, as well as a source of controversy. In March 2008, more than 17.2 million requests to download or stream BBC programmes were made via the iPlayer. So perhaps it was worth the £6 million it has cost to develop. The figure emerged in a Freedom of Information request. As far as I can tell, this is the first
PDF The big new story in Vancouver is the release of an amateur video that recorded the death of a man after he was stunned with a Taser by police in October. The dramatic 10-minute video shows four RCMP officers talking to the man, Robert Dziekanski, at Vancouver International Airport, and then stunning him. The video was shot by eye-witness Paul Pritchard with his digital camera and it has sparked much
You probably haven’t been able to avoid the mass coverage in the media of the release of Microsoft’s Halo 3 video game. But sometimes the mainstream media gets it wrong, like in this TV report from the BBC where it used footage from Sony’s Killzone 2 by mistake. I’ve worked with the reporter on the story, Rory Cellan-Jones, and he is a good journalist. To his credit, Rory has apologised
The world’s biggest news websites have been ranked by the University of Maryland’s International Center for Media and the Public Agenda according to their openness and accountability. The study looked at 25 international news websites, ranging from The New York Times to Sky News to Al Jazeera. The Guardian came in at first place. By comparison, the BBC fared pretty badly, receiving a “poor” verdict. As a former news editor